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Aug 21 Grenade Attack

Interpol invited to probe 'disclosures'

FBI not approached; Babar terms info from Arman, AL leader 'crucial clues'

Staff Corespondent
The government has invited Interpol to cany out a follow-up Jirobe into last year's grisly grenade tittack on an Awami League rally .following 'disclosure of crucial /clues' by two recent high-profile arrestees.
"We've got some crucial clues regarding the August 21 grenade attack," State Minister for Home Lutfozzarnan Babar told reporters yesterday, referring to the interroga-
tion of lop terror Arman Khan and former city corporation ward commissioner and AL leader Moklilesur Rahman.
On the expected time for tire arrival of Interpol members, Babar, emerging out of a law and order meeting at the Home Ministry conference room yesterday, said, "I hope.verysoon."
Asked whether the government is going to invite the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for die investigation, Babar said: "We're not planning to invite them at this moment. But they are always welcome, if they want to investigate."
A letter was sent to the Interpol Headquarters at Lyon in France Monday, requesting agents to assist Bangladeshi investigators following the reported 'disclosures' made by Arman and Mokhlesur.
Twenty people including AL's women affairs secretary Ivy Rahman were killed and hundred others were injured when unknown assailants hurled several grenades at the AL rally on the Bangabandhi Avenue.
Investigators failed to find the motive and people behind the attack even 10 months into the carnage, which shook the whole nation as well as the world.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (CID) Abdur Rashid has been tasked with the probe and Special Superintendent (CID) Ruhul Amin is supervising it.
Interpol, the largest international police organisation investigating cross-border crimes, sent two of its agents -- Jeffry Eyles, an expert on public safety and terrorism affairs, and Jacqueline Pullums, a US analyst of civilian terrorism -- eight days after the grenade attack.
After they returned to Lyon, Marash Vucilaj, Interpol specialist on public safety, and Xin Hu, a security and terrorism expert, flew to the capital on September 1.
Interpol sent a report in March this year to the home ministry, hinting at an international link with the attack.
FBI forensic expert Gibson Wilson also flew to Dhaka on September 1 last year.
A one-member judicial probe
committee headed by Justice Joynul Abedin submitted a report to the government after a 40-day probe, blaming 'external enemies' for the attack.
Another probe body of the Supreme Court Bar Association, headed by Dr Kamal Hossain, reported that Sheikh Hasina, who narrowly escaped death in the attack, was the main target of the attack. The lawyers' body also alleged that its probe was hampered by non-cooperation of the government.